Hi Wave, you agreed with Anna when she says that every high functioning schizophrenic has a milder form of the disease.
I would have to say that it is not that cut and dried. I would consider myself as being high functioning. Lately, I’m slipping but I had years when I was really doing a lot. I was going to school I was working, I was going to 5 or 6 AA meetings a week, I was socializing with a friend and my family and doing fun things. I still work and live on my own. BUT…it’s hard to compare suffering but the beginning of my illness was pretty severe. For the first two and a half years I was pretty incapacitated and was basically not functioning in regular society. My schizophrenia was anything but mild. I can’t put into words the incredible suffering and mental torture I went through for every minute of every day for those two and a half years. Of course there were always people who suffered more than me and of course there was always people who suffered less.
I think pixels story has some general parallels to mine in which in the beginning he was basically counted as hopeless.
And look at him now.
I also suffered a terrible relapse after being stable for 5 or 6 years. The relapse was not mild either.
This I would agree with.